Algeria’s once vibrant and critical media is now reduced to puppets whose strings are pulled by the military regime, relaying propaganda and fake news unchecked to divert the attention of Algerians. The demise of Algerian media started with co-option under Bouteflika’s long rule to repression under the couple Chengriha-Tebboune. Unemployment, the shortage of basic commodities, […]
The Moroccan government is elaborating a budget bill forecasting growth at 4.5% in 2023 after 1.5% in 2021, assuming an average agricultural output. Growth has decelerated in 2021 as the country faces the worst drought in decades, coupled with imported inflation pressures affecting the trade balance due to higher energy imports. The 2023 growth forecast […]
A Military junta in Gabon branding itself as Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) named Wednesday August 30 Gen. Oligui Nguema Brice as the leader of the transition in the central African country after toppling incumbent leader Ali Omar Bongo, few days after general elections. Some soldiers presenting the CTRI made the […]
